From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [patch] stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3: Correct history Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 15:02:31 +0200 Message-ID: <536B8067.6020202@gmail.com> References: <20140224003705.GB28413@iris.usta.de> <5363A48C.7060709@gmail.com> <20140507203300.GM3365@iris.usta.de> <20140508112356.GA22640@iris.usta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140508112356.GA22640-1ywcXMbTzNIuZeo0DBJMuQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ingo Schwarze Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Ingo, On 05/08/2014 01:23 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Michael, >=20 > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:55:36AM = +0200: >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Ingo Schwarze wr= ote: >>> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:58:36P= M +0200: >=20 >>>> the patch seems more or less okay to me, but given that The AmigaD= OS >>>> compiler is the merely the oldest instance you could find, I'd pre= fer >>>> a slightly more open wording. >>>> How would this be: >>>> >>>> [[ >>>> --- a/man3/stpcpy.3 >>>> +++ b/man3/stpcpy.3 >>>> @@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ function is thread-safe. >>>> .SH CONFORMING TO >>>> This function was added to POSIX.1-2008. >>>> Before that, it was not part of >>>> -the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems, but wa= s not a >>>> -GNU invention either. >>>> -Perhaps it came from MS-DOS. >>>> +the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems. >>>> +It first appeared at least as early as 1986, >>>> +in the Lattice C AmigaDOS compiler, >>>> +then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in 1989, >>>> +and in the GNU C library until 1992. >=20 >> Just fixed: s/until/in/ >=20 > Actually, what i intended to express with that "until" was: >=20 > "in the GNU C library at least as early as 1992" >=20 > Glibc development started in 1987. Clearly glibc didn't have stpcpy > before 1989, or early textutils/fileutils wouldn't have had their > own copy with a 1989 FSF Copyright. The glibc ChangeLog says > Roland McGrath fixed a bug in stpcpy in 1992, and *after that*, > the file has a 1992 FSF Copyright. >=20 > That doesn't strictly exclude stpcpy may have appeared in glibc > in 1989, 1990, or 1991. Ahhh got it now. I changed 'in' to 'by'. (Das deutsches Wort 'bis' kann auf englisch entweder 'by' oder 'until' sein. 'By' f=FCr=20 eine Sache, die _an_ einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt abgeschlossen ist,=20 'until' f=FCr eine Sache, die _dauert_ bis zu einem bestimmten=20 Zeitpunkt. Ganz normale Fehler von deutsch nach englisch; I should=20 have spotted it already ;-).) Mfg aus Muenchen, Michael --=20 Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html